Dictatorship Quotes

372 Dictatorship quotes by 208 unique authors

Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who… — Danny Glover
There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship. — Ai Weiwei
Somewhere at the top of the pyramid in the invisible government are a few sinister people who know exactly what they are doing: They want… — Dan Smoot
Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a… — Trevanian
The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and… — Harry S. Truman
Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny. — Ayn Rand
Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy. — Aldous Huxley
Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily. — Margaret Atwood
You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers. — Eamon Dunphy
England is no longer controlled by Britons, we are under the invisible Jewish dictatorship, a dictatorship that can be felt in every sphere of life — Nesta Helen Webster
There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship. — J. Christopher Herold
The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the… — Helmut Thielicke
In vain these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning… — Friedrich August von Hayek
What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners. — Ted Lindsay
True negotiation takes place when each side respects the other, and their point of view, and enters into the discussion positively. If you are determined… — Tony Buzan
Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership. — Rick Warren
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. — Mao Zedong
The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of… — Fidel Castro
Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of… — Dorothy Day
The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They… — Ayn Rand
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole… — Ayn Rand
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries . — Christopher Hitchens

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